Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
A Deeper Understanding of Autistic People
This online course explored what it means to be autistic, drawing on the experiences of autistic people of different genders. It covered the diagnostic process, including consideration of the barriers to diagnosis, and examined the latest research.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jill Bradshaw
Co-Head of Tizard Centre & Reader in Intellectual and Developmental Disability
The University of Kent
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the process and barriers to diagnosis
- Reflect on the experiences of autistic women, girls and other marginalised gender identities
- Discuss the latest developments in theories used to explain autistic differences
- Explain why such different people can have the same diagnosis
- Describe the differences between the social and medical models of disability
Syllabus
- The social model of disability and the implications of this way of understanding autism.
- What the spectrum is and isn’t.
- The term ‘neurodiversity’.
- Autism diagnosis.
- Autism in women, girls and other marginalised gender identities.
- Autism theories - and why they matter.
Issued on 5th April 2025
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